D-Day anniversary, Seattle aftermath, sports roundup | June 6
The day in photos around the world.
- A policeman secures the scene at Seattle Pacific University after the campus was evacuated due to a shooting in Seattle, Washington June 5, 2014. A gunman opened fire on Thursday on the campus of a small Christian college in Seattle, killing one person and wounding at least three others before he was subdued by school staff and arrested, Seattle police and hospital officials said. (David Ryder/Reuters)
- Students pray together after a shooting on campus at Seattle Pacific University in Washington June 5, 2014. A man armed with a shotgun opened fire on Thursday at a small Christian college in Seattle, killing one person and wounding three others before he was subdued by a group of students and arrested, Seattle police and hospital officials said. (David Ryder/Reuters)
- U.S. President Barack Obama (L) and French President Francois Hollande look out over Omaha Beach as they participate in the 70th French-American Commemoration D-Day Ceremony at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in Colleville-sur-Mer June 6, 2014. World leaders and veterans gathered by the beaches of Normandy under clear blue skies on Friday to mark the 70th anniversary of World War Two’s D-Day landings, with host France hoping the event will help bring a thaw in the Ukraine crisis. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
- Rose petals dropped by helicopters fall around the Statue of Liberty in New York June 6, 2014. The event was organized by the organization “The French Will Never Forget” to mark the 70th anniversary of World War Two’s D-Day landings. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters)
- A player performs a bicycle kick as he trains with the Rio Branco Beach Soccer team in Vitoria, Brazil on June 6, 2014. Football-mad Brazil is preparing for the 2014 FIFA World Cup which starts June 12. (William West/AFP/Getty Images ORG)
- A heavily armed man that police have identified as Justin Bourque walks on Hildegard Drive in Moncton, New Brunswick June 4, 2014 after several shots were fired in the area. Three police officers were shot dead and two more were wounded, police said, as they conducted a manhunt for a man carrying a rifle and wearing camouflage clothes. Police said they were searching for Justin Bourque, 24, of Moncton. Picture taken June 4, 2014. (Viktor Pivovarov/Times & Transcript/telegraphjournal.com/Reuters)
- A one-year-old poodle dressed in shoes and a costume stands up as it plays with its owner at a square in Shenyang, Liaoning province, June 6, 2014. (Stringer/Reuters)
- Third baseman Michael Cuddyer #3 of the Colorado Rockies dives but comes up short on a base hit by Miguel Montero (not pictured) of the Arizona Diamondbacks during the ninth inning at Coors Field on June 5, 2014 in Denver, Colorado. (Justin Edmonds/Getty Images)
- People look at a cracked side window of a bus which was damaged at bomb blasts in Kabul June 6, 2014. Abdullah Abdullah, front-runner in Afghanistan’s presidential election, escaped assassination on Friday when two bombs blew up outside a hotel where he had just staged a rally, killing six people. The midday blasts, one caused by a suicide bomber, destroyed a car in Abdullah’s convoy, police spokesman Hashmat Stanekzai said. One of the dead was a bodyguard. Twenty-two people were injured. (Ahmad Masood/Reuters)
- France’s national football team midfielder Franck Ribery and France’s head coach Didier Deschamps pose for a team group photo at the French national football team’s training base in Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines, outside Paris, on June 6, 2014, during France’s national football team’s preparation for the upcoming FIFA 2014 World Cup in Brazil. (Franck Fife/AFP/Getty Images)
- Former first lady of the United States Nancy Reagan visits the grave site of her husband, former United States President Ronald Wilson Reagan, at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on the 10th anniversary of his passing, in Simi Valley, California June 5, 2014. (Gus Ruelas/Reuters)
- Miami Heat’s LeBron James (R) sits on the bench after hurting his leg as coach Erik Spoelstra watches the game during the fourth quarter against the San Antonio Spurs in Game 1 of their NBA Finals basketball series in San Antonio, Texas June 5, 2014. (Mike Stone/Reuters)
- A woman visits the grave of her relative who died during the Korean War at Seoul National Cemetery on June 6, 2014 in Seoul, South Korea. South Korea marks the 59th anniversary of the Memorial Day for people who died during the military service in the 1950-53 Korean War. (Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)
- General view taken on June 6, 2014 in Paris shows Great Britain’s Andy Murray (yellow jersey) playing against Spain’s Rafael Nadal during their French tennis Open semi-final match at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris. (Miguel Medina/AFP/Getty Images)
- The broken racket of Novak Djokovic of Serbia is seen on the court after he smashed it during his men’s semi-final match against Ernests Gulbis of Latvia at the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris June 6, 2014. (Vincent Kessler/Reuters)
- Revellers attend the Victorian Picnic during the Wave and Goth festival in Leipzig June 6, 2014. The annual festival, known in Germany as Wave-Gotik Treffen (WGT), features over 150 bands and artist in venues all over the city playing Gothic rock and other styles of the dark wave music subculture. The event that counts as one of the biggest of its kind attracts a regular audience of up to 20,000 the organisers said. (Thomas Peter/Reuters)
- Sikhs wield swords during their clash inside the complex of the holy Sikh shrine, the Golden Temple, in the northern Indian city of Amritsar June 6, 2014. Sikhs wielding swords clashed inside the compound of their religion’s holiest shrine on Friday, the 30th anniversary of a controversial raid by Indian security forces that flushed out separatist militants holed up in the temple. (Munish Sharma/Reuters)